James M. Ostell

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 969 citations indexed

About

James M. Ostell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, James M. Ostell has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 969 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Ecology and 1 paper in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in James M. Ostell's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (1 paper) and Galectins and Cancer Biology (1 paper). James M. Ostell is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (1 paper) and Galectins and Cancer Biology (1 paper). James M. Ostell collaborates with scholars based in United States. James M. Ostell's co-authors include Thomas Madden, Jian Ye, Ning Ma, Sarah J. Wheelan, Deanna M. Church and Jonathan A. Kans and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Research and Methods of biochemical analysis.

In The Last Decade

James M. Ostell

4 papers receiving 948 citations

Hit Papers

IgBLAST: an immunoglobulin variable domain sequence analy... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. IgBLAST: an immunoglobulin variable domain sequence analysis tool
    2013 688 citations Jian Ye, Ning Ma et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers

James M. Ostell
M Ogata Japan
Viviane Anquez Switzerland
Gregory N. Weddell United States
Géraldine Folch France
Jacques Roland France
Alan P. Lewis United Kingdom
T. Scott Manetz United States
Joumana Jabado-Michaloud France
Diana S. Smith United States
A M Francoeur United States
M Ogata Japan
James M. Ostell
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Countries citing papers authored by James M. Ostell

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Fields of papers citing papers by James M. Ostell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James M. Ostell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James M. Ostell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James M. Ostell based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James M. Ostell. James M. Ostell is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

4 of 4 papers shown
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Ye, Jian, Ning Ma, Thomas Madden, & James M. Ostell. (2013). IgBLAST: an immunoglobulin variable domain sequence analysis tool. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(W1). W34–W40. 688 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wheelan, Sarah J., Deanna M. Church, & James M. Ostell. (2001). Spidey: A Tool for mRNA-to-Genomic Alignments. Genome Research. 11(11). 1952–1957. 251 indexed citations
3.
Ostell, James M., Sarah J. Wheelan, & Jonathan A. Kans. (2001). The NCBI Data Model. Methods of biochemical analysis. 39. 19–43. 26 indexed citations
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Ostell, James M.. (1995). Integrated access to heterogeneous data from NCBI. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine. 14(6). 730–736. 4 indexed citations

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